Fine Motor Skills Bundle: Holidays & Seasons

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Fine Motor Skills Bundle: Holidays & Seasons

This bundle pack includes 10 months (40-weeks) of thematic hands-on activities organized into monthly packs. Each monthly pack includes 60 pages of varied resources, organized weekly themes based on seasons and holidays. Each sheet is designed to build key fine motor skills or to strengthen small motor muscles. The majority of the activities are considered non-consumable, meaning they can be reused by placing them inside page protectors. The remaining pages of each week are considered consumable as they require cutting, gluing, dabbing and poking. Many pages are adaptable if you do not have the required manipulatives. For example, you can have students color with crayons instead of dabbing or building. A full list of suggested materials is found below, as well as a weekly overview of the included activities.

Table of Contents Suggested Materials:

September • Geoboard & Bands • Playdough • Snap Cubes • Puzzle Blocks • Push Pin Dowel • Dab & Dot Markers • Pom-Poms • 10mm Wiggle Eyes • Page Protectors • Popsicle Sticks • Cuisenaire™ Rods • LEGO ™ Bricks

October

November

December

January

February

March

April

May

June

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES

GEOBOARD Students use rubber bands to create the

pictures on a geoboard. Each sheet features a letter of the alphabet alongside a thematic

picture.

Materials: 5x5 Geoboard, Rubberbands

PUZZLE PICTURES Students use puzzle blocks to create thematic

pictures. Student count up the amount of blocks they used for each shape, and report

the totals below.

Materials: Pattern Blocks

MAZES Students solve the mazes and follow the

prompts. Each page features thematic mazes alongside a tracing activity or prompt.

CUISENAIRE™ ROD PICTURES Students use colorful centimeter rods to build thematic pictures. Students are asked to color the rod key to show how many rods they used

of each color.

Materials: Cuisenaire™ Rods

PLAY DOUGH Students use play dough to complete the

prompts. Prompts require students to form and shape the dough to make pictures, solve

problems, or complete the scene.

Materials: Play dough

BRICK BUILDERS Students use LEGO ™ or other classic building

bricks to recreate these thematic pictures. Students work on reading, writing, planning,

addition, subtraction, sorting & stacking while completing the final picture.

Materials: LEGO™ or other classic brick

WEEKLY ACTIVITIES (cont…)

TRACING Students trace the pictures with colored pencils or fine tip markers. Each page features thematic content and prompts students to complete the

pictures.

POM PICTURE 1 Students use pom-poms to recreate the

picture. For added difficulty have students use plastic tweezers to pick up

the poms.

Materials: Pom-Poms

CUBE CREATIONS Students use counting cubes to make thematic pictures These cubes can be snapped together. If you do not have

cubes, students can color the squares in the grid to match the picture.

Materials: Snap Cubes

LISTENING SKILL SHEETS Teachers read the directions aloud as the

student listens carefully to finish each task. Tasks involve fine motor skills such as

tracing, drawing, coloring, and more to decipher prepositional clues.

CUT & SORT CROWNS Each crown features a theme alongside a 4-step sequencing pattern. Students cut out the pictures and glue them in the correct

order. Students write their name, color the pictures, then staple the sides to make a

crown.

SPECIAL SKILLS SHEETS Students work on a variety of different

skills including dot-2-dots, pin & poke, q-tip painting, and scissor skills. Students follow the instructions to build key fine

motor skills.

Materials: Pin Dowel, Q-tips, Paint

DAB & DOT** Students use daubers to dab by number in order

to reveal the mystery picture. (Hold at a distance to help students see the pictures)

Materials: Dab & Dot Markers

POPSICLE STICK CRAFTIVITY These crafty projects are perfect for

little hands. Students color, glue, and cut to make fun, thematic pictures. Have glue, glitter, wiggle eyes and

pipe cleaners on hand.

Materials: Popsicle Sticks, Markers POM PICTURE 2**

Students use pom-poms to complete the picture. For added difficulty have students use plastic tweezers to pick up the poms. Alternatively students can glue poms to

make these sheets into a simple craft project.

Materials: Pom-Poms or Mini-Poms

*Layer the picture, construction paper, cardboard and then tape the edges. Students use a pushpin to poke through the layers. When finished, separate the layers to reveal the dotted picture on the construction paper. Hang up in a window to see the light shine through! ** These work well with circle stickers too. To make this non-consumable, use bingo counters, or glue pom-poms to circle magnets. Then, have students use the sheet on a magnetic cookie sheet.